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APN/INM Group: Holdings

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  1. Holdings
    1. APN
    2. W&H
    3. INM
    4. INM in South Africa

Holdings

This listing is indicative only.

It covers -

  • APN (print, broadcast, advertising)
  • Wilson & Horton
  • INM
  • INM in Africa

APN

APN (40.7% owned by INM as of late 2002) claims to be Australia's largest publisher of regional newspapers, with 14 daily and more than 50 non-daily publications and a presence in specialist and educational publishing. It competes with Rural Press, carved out of the Fairfax empire, and Murdoch-controlled Queensland Press.

It is a major commercial radio broadcaster, with investments in 11 metropolitan radio stations in Australia and 55 radio stations in New Zealand. In Australia, APN and Clear Channel Communications of the US jointly operate the Australian Radio Network (ARN), which broadcasts to more than 3.5 million listeners each week.

ARN stations include -

  • WS FM - Sydney
  • MIX 106.5 - Sydney
  • Gold FM - Melbourne
  • MIX 101.1 - Melbourne
  • 4KQ - Brisbane
  • 5DN - Adelaide
  • MIX 102.3 - Adelaide

In New Zealand, ARN has a one third interest in The Radio Network (TRN), the leading commercial broadcaster with 55 stations.

APN's Pan TV is a joint venture between ARN, public sector broadcaster SBS and Australian Capital Equity. Its World Movies pay tv channel is distributed by the three pay tv carriers - Foxtel, Optus and Austar - and accessed by about 15% of pay tv homes.

APN's outdoor advertising holdings include Adshel Street Furniture (partnership with Clear Channel), Cody Outdoor and Australian Posters, the major billboard operator that's extended into advertising on the back of taxis. Its Buspak unit offers bus advertising in all Australian metropolitan markets and in Hong Kong.

Online businesses include the classifieds site checkout and the real estate site homehunter, with investments in B2B peakhour, mobile data service bureau itouch and WAP site builder Soprano Design.

W&H

As of 2001 APN controls New Zealand-based Wilson & Horton (W&H) - profiled in more detail here - which includes -

  • The New Zealand Herald
  • Weekend Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Christchurch Star
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Northern Advocate
  • Daily Post
  • Wanganui Chronicle
  • Evening News
  • The Chronicle
  • Oamaru Mail
  • Whangarei Report
  • Manurewa Week
  • Papatoetoe Otahuhu Week
  • Shore News
  • West Weekly
  • Our Town
  • Papakura Coastal News
  • Waikato This Week
  • The Riversider
  • Katikati Advertiser
  • Bay News Weekender
  • Te Awamutu Courier
  • Taupo Weekender
  • Turangi Chronicle
  • Wanganui Mid-Week
  • Weekly News
  • Eastern Bay News
  • Napier Courier
  • Hastings Leader
  • CHB Mail
  • Independent Herald
  • Porirua News
  • Wainuiomata News
  • Western News
  • Cook Strait News
  • Christchurch Star Observer
  • Pegasus Post
  • News Advertiser
  • North Canterbury News
  • Canterbury Times
  • New Zealand Woman's Weekly
  • New Zealand Listener
  • Tourist Times
  • Thermal Air
  • Universal Business Directories NZ
  • Wises Maps
  • W&H Print
  • ComPrint
  • Colorgraphic Print
  • Security Print Hutcheson
  • Bowman & Stewart
  • Christchurch Star Print
  • Webprint Colour W&H Graphics
  • Ellerslie Printers
  • BankPrint
  • CHB Print
  • Rotorua Printers
  • PrintCorp
  • The Print Place
  • 33% of The Radio Network (TRN) - 53 stations

INM

APN's largest shareholder is Dublin-based Independent News & Media PLC (INM), the international media group controlled by the O'Reilly family. Its holdings cover:

Independent Newspapers (Eire)

  • Irish Independent - daily broadsheet
  • Sunday Independent and Sunday World
  • Eire's only national evening newspaper
  • around 15% of provincial papers in Eire and Northern Ireland
  • Irish edition of the Daily Star
  • 50% stake in Chrus (formerly Princes Holdings) - cable/MDS television

Independent Newspapers (UK)

  • Independent
  • Independent on Sunday
  • provincial papers in the UK
  • largest recruitment magazine business in London
  • exhibitions and recruitment fairs
  • 48% of iTouch mobile phone service

INM in South Africa

INM's South African holdings include -

  • Johannesburg Star
  • Cape Town Cape Times
  • Cape Town Cape Argus
  • Cape Town Weekend Argus
  • Natal Mercury
  • Durban Daily News
  • Durban Sunday Tribune
  • Bloemfontein The Friend
  • Kimberley Diamond Fields Advertiser
  • Business Report
  • Personal Finance
  • Isolezwe
  • joint venture with Advance subsidiary Conde Nast
  • 50% stake in financial publisher Worth
  • 17.8% stake in Kaya FM Johannesburg
  • 37.5% in Clear Channel Independent - outdoor advertising (controlled by Clear)

Until October 2003 it had a 19.1% stake in Lusomundo Media (publisher of Jornal de Noticias and Diario de Noticias)